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...Felix was promoted to active duty last month, when tensions reached fever pitch between Burma's ruling junta and various armed ethnic groups in the country's northern borderlands. In late August, the military regime unexpectedly overran the army of the nearby Kokang minority, sending some 30,000 refugees spilling into neighboring China. Now other ethnic militias who control various jigsaw-puzzle pieces of northeastern Burma - the Kachin, the Wa, the Eastern Shan - are reinforcing their ragged armies and playing a terrifying guessing game: Who's next on the junta's hit list? (Read "A Closer Look at Burma...
...Palindromes) creates worlds suppurating with unspeakable domestic horror and lends them the benison of tragicomic sympathy. Whatever domestic crimes the people close to you may have committed, in the end they're family and you have to try to understand them. This sense of connection, despite all, and the pitch-perfect playing of Solondz's large cast, makes Life During Wartime one of the year's best films, in whatever year it ultimately finds theatrical release...
...perfectly timed humor. Some of Eckhart’s best scenes involve him stealing his old pet parrot from his in-laws and then imitating the movements of the bird in order to inspire it to fly away free. In another scene, Unicom’s advertising executives pitch a weight loss powder that promises to be “finally a loss you can feel good about.” And Judy Greer is fantastic in her small supporting role as Eloise’s feminist, slam-poetry writing employee and friend; when we first meet...
Will be heavily relied upon to control the middle of the pitch for Brown. Elenz-Martin will also be looking to recapture his form from sophomore year, when he was an All-Ivy First Team selection...
...Shark Tank airs on Sunday nights. It premiered in early August to weak ratings but has been picking up viewers recently. ABC's website says the show gives individuals the "access to the means to live out their dreams." Each week, entrepreneurs pitch their business ventures to the five "Sharks," who in addition to O'Leary include real estate executive Barbara Corcoran and Daymond John, the founder of clothing brand FUBU. Both ABC and Mark Burnett Productions declined to comment on O'Leary's past business dealings...